In the dim candlelight, there were only four figures.
No one answered the man's question, only silence. After a while, the boy put down the rag with a taut face, and was about to chase people away.
However, he was stopped by the man.
"Brother Chang?" The boy shouted hesitantly, "They lied to you, shall I drive them out?"
The man slowly shook his head. In the candlelight, his face showed a hint of depression and sadness. He took a few steps back, and one leg passed through the stool like air.
Everyone saw this scene, the boy's pupils shrank, and he lost his voice: "Brother Chang!"
He probably sensed something himself. He lowered his head and stared blankly for a while, then let out a sigh of relief and asked, "Am I dying?"
"People who are already dead, how come they will die." Shen Zhixian brushed off his sleeves and sat on the wooden bench beside him, "If a ghost can't be reborn, it will be lost."
The man didn't respond yet, but the boy looked over nervously, "What does this mean?"
"Literally." Shen Zhixian said calmly, "I have an obsession, and I can't die. After a long time, I can't escape the end of my soul. It's better for you to find a new big brother earlier."
The boy stepped back abruptly, tripped over the foot of the stool, and stumbled a bit. The man wanted to support him, but his hand went through the boy's body—he was about to be unable to hold it.
The man's open fingers curled up and retracted sullenly. After a long silence, he sighed, and finally, regardless of the boy's voice, he told all the old things that were lingering in his heart.
Men's stories are not thrilling, but left is the most common life and death in the world.
"My family is adjacent to Alian's. We have grown up together since we were young, and we have the best relationship..."
It also happens that the two families live near the water. There is a lotus pond in front of the door. Every summer, the pond is full of green lotus leaves, lining the lotus flowers in buds or blooming, which is very beautiful.
Ten-year-old children, the most noisy age, would pay attention to whether the scenery is beautiful or not. For Ah Chang, playing with water and eating lotus seeds is the real business.
When the weather is hot, he is strong and healthy. He has nothing to do on weekdays, so he likes to take off his shirt and soak in the water for a whole day.
"Alian wasn't actually called Alian at first, because he likes to eat lotus seeds. I always laugh at him as a reincarnation of a lotus seed demon. When the lotus pods are ripe, he can't go into the water, so he often asks me to pick them for him..."
Unlike A Chang, A Lian is a premature baby. Not to mention that she is thin and thin, and the cold wind blows a little and will make her sick. At the beginning, A Chang was ignorant and encouraged him to go into the water to play, but A Lian developed a high fever that night and almost didn't get through it.
Ah Chang almost killed him, and felt guilty in his heart. Since then, he has obeyed Ah Lian's advice, took care of him, and picked the biggest and sweetest lotus pod for him.
In the evening, not long after the sun went down, it was still a little sultry. The thin young man was sitting on the shore, holding many large lotus pods in his arms, and whispered to his companion: "Brother Ah Chang, it's getting dark, come up quickly. The water is cool. ."
Ah Chang obediently swam to the shore, but didn't come ashore. Looking at the lotus pod in his arms, he mused, "If you eat it all day, you won't get tired of it?"
Alian said: "It's not greasy, it's delicious. I can only eat this."
He is weak, so he should be very careful about his diet. He can't eat all kinds of snacks like Ah Chang, and even the lotus seeds must be controlled.
Ah Chang was silent. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind: "The way to eat lotus seeds here is too simple. When I grow up, I will go out and learn more delicious ways."
He put his hands on the shore, burst out of the water, and vowed: "I will definitely make the best food for you."
Alian pursed her lips, smiled slightly, said hello, took his hand familiarly, and went home together.
Ah Chang prides himself on being a man, a man who can speak his words, so after a few years, he packed his bags and headed out.
He planned very well. His younger brother gradually grew up to be able to take care of the family. He went out at this time, one to make a living, and the other to fulfill the promise he made to Alian back then, killing two birds with one stone.
On the day he left, A Lian stood at the entrance of the village and looked at him, holding many lotus pods in his arms, which were specially picked for him by A Chang before he left.
"If you're still thirsty after eating, ask my little brother to pick it up for you." Ah Chang urged, "You can't catch a cold in the water yourself."
Alian nodded obediently. He is eighteen years old this year, but because of his thinness, he still looks like a boy of sixteen or seventeen, much shorter than Ah Chang. He whispered: "You come back earlier."
Ah Chang said "um" and didn't care too much: "Don't worry, it can be three years at most, or one or two years at least, and I will be back! Then you will have a good time!"
The hearty laughter gradually faded away, and no one knew that the difference was that the yin and yang were separated like a business.
When it came to the later, the ghost sighed wearily and murmured: "Who knows, after such an unfortunate accident, there was a turmoil..."
The young man in his twenties looked blankly at the place of his home in the darkness of the night, but he couldn't go back, and he couldn't go back again-behind him, corpses with warm blood were engulfed by the fire. .
Among them, there is also his.
It stands to reason that when a person becomes a ghost, he should be reincarnated early, but Ah Chang misses the promise he made back then.
But in the end, he became a ghost, his memory was not good, he forgot his way home, and sometimes he even forgot that he was a ghost, and just thought he was an ordinary person. But he couldn't find his Alian. He made a lot of lotus seed cakes and lotus seed cakes, but he couldn't eat them for Alian.
Later, he came here and met a young boy with newly deceased parents and struggling to survive alone in charge of a restaurant.
Probably the clear eyes of the young man are very similar to the eyes of Alian in the vague memory. Achang stayed there for several years. Every time he saw a new guest who came from afar, he would ask Alian about it. message.
But got nothing.
There is a time limit for the existence of the soul in the yang world. If you don’t die beyond this time limit, you can only completely dissipate in this world, and there will be no next life.
The soul of the man he saw was getting lighter and lighter, and the young man's eyes were red, and he asked, "Is there any way to save Brother Chang?"
"To let him let go of his obsessions and go to life is to save him." Shen Zhixian said, "As for how to let go of ... obsessions, they can dissipate as soon as they are obtained."
His attention was on the young man, but he didn't notice Yan Jin, who had been silent for a long time. After hearing his words, he was stunned for a moment.
Obsession, once you get it, it can dissipate...
Everyone's eyes were focused on the ghost, only Yan Jin quietly looked sideways at Shen Zhixian, his eyes gradually deepening.
The young man was at a loss for a while, then gradually came to his senses and opened his eyes slightly: "But..."
But Big Brother Chang wants to see Alian, where can they find Alian!
"Find someone to pretend to be." Shen Zhixian glanced at the ghost that was about to dissipate, and began to be confused again, and said: "He is a confused ghost now, if you say you are Alian, he will believe it - just look Would you like to suffer this grievance?"
This decision is too cruel. The young man bit his lip suddenly, a tear swirled in his eyes, as if it was about to fall, his fists were clenched tightly.
But in the end he asked, "What should I do?"
Shen Zhixian didn't answer him, and looked sideways at Duan Yuan. He can't do this without spiritual power, and Yan Jin can't do it either, only the disciples of Qianyin Pavilion...
Duan Yuan has not spoken since the beginning, as if touched by this story, and froze with some emotion.
Shen Zhixian said softly, "Miss Duan, you are working hard."
Duan Yuan just came back to his senses, made a short "ah" sound, put his hand on the xun around his waist, pulled it lightly, took it off, and put it against his lips.
When the song of Requiem for the Soul's death sounded faintly, the gradually fading soul slammed, and then slowly solidified.
The young man took two steps towards him stiffly, imitating the A Lian in A Chang's description, and shouted tremblingly, "Brother A Chang."
The ghost froze. He turned his head confusedly, looked in the direction of the young man, paused for a long time, recalled with difficulty for a long time, and then called out uncertainly, "Alian?"
"it's me."
This name really is the obsession to maintain the ghost's last bit of clarity. The ghost burst into great joy in an instant. The young man has never seen him so happy and excited, and even rushed over to hug him with a single stride: "Finally found you, Ah Lian... I'm back!"
He rambled on: "I'm sorry, I've been away for so long, but I learned to make lotus seed cake and lotus seed soup. It should taste pretty good..."
Everything went well afterwards. Ah Chang's obsession was that he never let Ah Lian taste his lotus seed cake and lotus seed soup before he died. Now that he "meeted", he eagerly went to the inner kitchen to eat a meal. one end up.
The faint fragrance lingered on the nose, a taste that the teenager was very familiar with.
But the fragrant and delicious cakes in the usual, at this time, are biting between the teeth, but they are extremely bitter. Under the expectation of the ghost, the young man swallowed the dry pastry, scooped another sip of the soup into his mouth, smiled reluctantly, and looked happy: "Brother Ah Chang, it's delicious."
A sentence that was delayed for many years fell into the ears of the ghost, and he finally laughed, in a trance, the obsession that had been in his heart for a long time dissipated, he spit out the last breath of the world, and the whole soul began to change. be transparent.
This is a sign of an imminent departure.
The spoon in the boy's hand couldn't be held anymore, Kuang Ji fell to the ground and shattered. He looked at the gradually fading ghost, and tears rolled down his eyes for a long time: "Brother Chang..."
He and Big Brother Chang have been dependent on each other for so many years, and they have long regarded him as the closest person, but Big Brother Chang...
Until now, Big Brother Chang was still thinking about his Alian, afraid that he didn't even remember his name.
A kind of pain of being abandoned and forgotten filled his heart, the teenager was in tears, and there was a cry in his tone, and finally he couldn't help shouting: "Brother Chang! I'm not Alian, I'm... "
He bit his name very clearly, sad and desperate, "Look at me..."
After the boy finished shouting, he got up and stumbled towards the ghost.
Yan Jin was close to him, afraid that he would affect the ghost's life, so he subconsciously wanted to stop him, but as soon as his hand was raised, another plain white and cool hand was placed on the back of his hand, preventing him from making a move. .
"No need to stop. It's over." After Shen Zhixian finished saying this, he turned his head over, a glimmer of light in his eyes, like a sigh, "Treasure how good it is now, but let the innocent betrayed."
It's hard to say whether Alian is still alive or not. The ghost is thinking about her old friend and entangled in the past, but it hurts the young man in front of her.
He said this unintentionally, purely out of feeling, but Yan Jin's heart was shocked when he heard it.
Cherish the moment...
betray the innocent...
The words that were as light as a sigh slammed into Yan Jin's heart like a heavy hammer, causing both his ears to start roaring.
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